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Mick Parkin vs.
Marcin Tybura

Two full careers, measured against each man's own division and against each other — the tape, the read, and every number behind them.

4-1-0 Mick Parkin · UFC
14-11-0 Marcin Tybura · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

Frame, age, layoff and recent form — green marks the edge on each line.

4-1-0
UFC record
14-11-0
Heavyweight
Division (benchmark)
Heavyweight
30.8
AgeΔ 9.9 yrs
40.7
6'4"
HeightΔ 1"
6'3"
79"
ReachΔ 1"
78"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
16.5
Layoff (months)Δ 16.3 mo
0.2
LWWWW
Last 5 (newest first)
LLLWW
The read

What the numbers say.

Scouting notes, auto-generated — only stats deviating more than 25% from the division median make this list. No narratives, just deviations.

Marcin Tybura owns the mat — in control 27% of cage time, vs a 17% Heavyweight norm.
Mick Parkin outworks the Heavyweight division — 4.73 sig. strikes landed per minute, vs a 3.36 norm.
Mick Parkin is wasteful with ground strikes — only 44% land, vs a 70% Heavyweight norm.
Level of competition

Who did they actually beat?

Full-career records re-graded by the tier of opposition — the same grading the Contender Series pick model uses. Records built on tier-4 competition are worth less than records built on killers.

Mick Parkin

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 51
Tier 3 — regional circuit 50

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.74 · 5 tier-1/2 wins · 7 finish wins over 11 documented bouts

In the UFC: 2-1 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +1.4 wins over .500

Marcin Tybura

Competition tierWL
Tier 1 — UFC / DWCS / PFL / Bellator / ONE / Rizin 1411
Tier 3 — regional circuit 121

Tier-weighted record quality: 1.0 · 14 tier-1/2 wins · 16 finish wins over 38 documented bouts

In the UFC: 9-8 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.1 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

Career totals; norms are the medians of each man's own division.

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

3004.73/min · norm 3.36
Sig. strikes landed
9753.49/min · norm 3.36
2544.01/min · norm 3.19
Sig. strikes absorbed
9323.34/min · norm 3.19
49.9%norm 47.8%
Striking accuracy
46.8%norm 47.8%
59.7%norm 52.5%
Striking defense
54.7%norm 52.5%
10.24/15 · norm 0.28
Knockdowns
10.05/15 · norm 0.28

Where the fight happens (share of sig. strike attempts)

Mick Parkin

Distance 92.2% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 2.5% (norm 9.8%) · Ground 5.3% (norm 9.3%)

Marcin Tybura

Distance 80.2% (norm 79.5%) · Clinch 6.9% (norm 9.8%) · Ground 12.9% (norm 9.3%)

What they throw (share of sig. strike attempts by target)

Mick Parkin

Head 78.2% (norm 79.2%) · Body 5.0% (norm 11.5%) · Legs 16.8% (norm 7.6%)

Marcin Tybura

Head 77.4% (norm 79.2%) · Body 15.5% (norm 11.5%) · Legs 7.1% (norm 7.6%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

Green ≥ division median, red below. UFCStats tracks position and target as separate splits.

Zone Parkin L/AAccHeavyweight med Tybura L/AAccHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 274 / 554 49.5% 40.1% 677 / 1670 40.5% 40.1%
In the clinch 12 / 15 too few to rate 70.6% 96 / 144 66.7% 70.6%
On the ground 14 / 32 43.8% 70.2% 202 / 269 75.1% 70.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 183 / 470 38.9% 38.9% 629 / 1613 39.0% 38.9%
To the body 23 / 30 76.7% 76.8% 216 / 322 67.1% 76.8%
To the legs 94 / 101 93.1% 87.8% 130 / 148 87.8% 87.8%

Zones with fewer than 25 attempts are marked "too few to rate". Each fighter is measured against the median of leaderboard-eligible fighters in his own division (Heavyweight: 93 fighters · Heavyweight: 93 fighters).

What lands on them Opponents' accuracy against each man

Green ≤ division median — harder to hit than the typical man in his division.

Zone vs Parkin L/AOpp accHeavyweight med vs Tybura L/AOpp accHeavyweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 239 / 609 39.2% 40.7% 711 / 1754 40.5% 40.7%
In the clinch 13 / 20 too few to rate 70.6% 150 / 195 76.9% 70.6%
On the ground 2 / 2 too few to rate 72.0% 71 / 109 65.1% 72.0%
BY TARGET
To the head 129 / 466 27.7% 38.8% 639 / 1710 37.4% 38.8%
To the body 90 / 129 69.8% 75.1% 181 / 220 82.3% 75.1%
To the legs 35 / 36 97.2% 84.4% 112 / 128 87.5% 84.4%
Grappling

The ground war.

Takedowns, control and submissions — career totals with each man's per-minute rates against his division norm.

436.4% acc · 0.95/15 · norm 0.95
Takedowns landed
2332.4% acc · 1.23/15 · norm 0.95
375.0% def · norm 64.3%
Takedowns stopped
2970.7% def · norm 64.3%
10:0816.0% of cage time · norm 17.2%
Control time
75:3027.0% of cage time · norm 17.2%
2:380:37 per 15 · norm 2:28
Time under control
44:102:22 per 15 · norm 2:28
00.00/15 · norm 0.16
Submission attempts
20.11/15 · norm 0.16

Bars compare the two men's rates (per-minute / per-15 figures), not raw totals — Tybura has more cage time on record.

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